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blady grass

British  
/ ˈbleɪdɪ /

noun

  1. a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Beyond the entanglement of the beach scrub the way was open, though rough, with granite boulders half hidden among rampant blady grass.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

It was situated in a natural, symmetrical clearing, a circus hemmed in by sullen vegetation, and upon which no plant save blady grass ever invaded.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

We followed a foot-path of the natives, who seemed very numerous, which led towards another range west by south; and crossed several tea-tree creeks, Pandanus groves, and swamps full of a high blady grass.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

The sound again—merely the mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Darts are also improvised from blady grass by two other methods, each a prototype of the spear and wommera.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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